Wow Your Mom on Mother’s Day!

Can’t decide on flowers or candy? Then give your mom both – and some cupcakes to boot.

These cute candy flowers were inspired by fellow flickr user mommawants1more. She does a great job with this creative candy technique. Then I also found this decorating style featured in the book, The Whimsical Bakehouse, and saw how easy it was to do using colored candy melts. And you know, I have my fair share of those laying around the kitchen lately. So you guessed it, I started melting. Read below to see how you can do it too.

Find a design you want to use or draw it by hand for a more whimsical feel.Place the drawing on a cookie sheet and cover with wax paper. Tape it down flat so it doesn’t move. Use one unmelted yellow candy melt for each flower center.

Melt the white candy coating and use a plastic bottle (shown) or ziploc bag with the corner cut out to pipe the outline of your shape. Place in the freezer for a couple of minutes until hardened. Remove.

Fill in the shapes with a second color. It shouldn’t be too hot. (or too hard… my niece even helped me with this.)

Return to freezer to harden. Remove and flip over to reveal the flat side to display on your cupcakes. Easy!

And if you want to make some letters, that’s easy too! Use an alphabet mold and fill shape with melted candy. Freeze for a few minutes and then, pop them out.

Could you share the recipe you used to make these lovely cupcakes and the frosting? I loved the chocolate cupcake receipe you posted around Valentine’s Day. Now I am looking for a go-to yellow cake and white cake recipes. Thanks so much.

I love these little cupcakes so much :) I have to let you know that I made some of your cupcake pops – this was a really big deal for me (being quite domestically challenged!) and they were a big hit so thank you xx

Those are really cute! It’ my first time on your blog and I LOVE it! I’ll definitely be back. Looking to make some cupcakes for my son’s birthday. Where can I get those dark brown cupcake holders? Thanks!

suneeta – well I have to say, I didn’t think of it first, but I wish I had.

mika – it’s easier after having worked with the candy melts on other projects

Kim – you are welcome.

Darling729 – I thought peopel would like this, so thanks.

Min – look at this post. I have some links to buy online

sugarlens – thanks. And I am still looking for that go-to recipe. This one isn’t it. It’s an enhanced cake mix recipe using pudding mix and sour cream. When I find a scratch one I like, I’ll be sure to post it. The frosting is the same one from the chocolate cupcake valentine post you mentioned.

These are just amazingly adorable! Thanks so much for inspiring and sharing! I want to make these flowers and was wondering if you could melt the chocolates in the bottle or if you melt them and then transfer them? Can you please let me know? Thanks so much!

I made your fabulous mini cupcakes for many special occasions this week and they were very well received! So darn cute! My little flower cookie cutter was a little too large, though. Some fell down the stick! Still tasted good, though!

Lisa – I melted the chocolate first and then poured into the bottle. And I’d love to see a pic of your cupcakes if you have one. Also, you can try using the larger diameter lollipop sticks next time. That may help since you have the larger size cutter. And make sure the chocolate sets around the base of the stick, too.

Too cute! I am going to make this for a huge picnic with my in-laws on Mothers Day. There’s going to be 32 of us so I have my work cut out for me. Maybe the little ones don’t need such a fancy cupcake. Anyway, think I could draw that flower but just in case, where did you get it? Thanks!

Wow! Love the site, love the cupcake ideas but really LOVE the photography. Everything just really pops and as I look through your site, I’m making my list of all the things I need to buy at Michael’s. Are the backgrounds you use just cute scrapbook paper or do you do something special in Photoshop? Such talent!!~Sylvia

I’ve been following your blog since December and check for new posts almost daily – brilliant ideas, lovely photography! I plan to make either these flower cupcakes OR the cupcake pops for my twins’ birthday party — both are so cute, I just can’t decide! Would it be asking too much for you to post the daisy design on your blog somewhere (or e-mail to me? dawn_mdb@hotmail.com) I wish you much success and happiness! :)

Just wanted to let you know that I made a test batch of the flowers today and although they don’t look quite as perfect as yours, they came out adorable! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I know these will be a big hit at the baby shower. :)

I wanted to thank you for the cute idea with the flowers. I was making cupcakes for a baby shower i was throwing and these chocolate flowers were the perfect addition. I usually think tasks will be easy and they end up taking hours and turn out not very cute. Not these. They were easy, quick and they were the hit of the party. Thank you so much for the idea. Don’t worry however, I gave you full credit for the idea at the shower! I’m not sure people would have believed me if I had said I came up with the idea anyway since I have no creative bones in my body!! Thank you again. I love your blog.

Hello again. Made a test batch last night and they were so cute! Kind of hard to pipe with the zip-lock bags, though. Where did you get your miniature squeeze bottles? I think those would be a lot easier and give more control. Thanks! Can’t wait to see your next creation — I’m sure it will as adorable as all the others!

i have to tell you i found your site last night and couldn’t even go to sleep because i so want to duplicate your ideas! i just started with my cupcake baking craze so thanks for feeding my addiction :)

Bakerella, I have to tell you a little story and hope that you get a notice when you get a new comment, because this is an old post. (I just found your site the other day and am slowly making it through the archives.)

When I was just a wee tot (five years old) we made those plates-you know the ones where you got to draw on a circular sheet of paper and then it magically turned into a plate?

Anyway, I was still learning my letters and “W”s and “M”s were confusing to me, because one is basically just the flipped up version of the other.

So, I was asking my mom which was which. I distinctly remember saying to her, “Mom, is an M like this or like this?” drawing the M and W in the air. Well, as you can probably guess, I used the wrong letter.

To this day, there’s a plate hanging on the wall at my mom’s place that says, “WOW DAD”

Thanks for all of your great ideas- I just made these a few days ago for my daughters Daisy Girl Scout troop- they were perfect for that! I need to practice working with candy melts a little more to get them to look more like yours. ;)

I LOVE your blog Bakerella!! Always full of surprises and inspirational posts!! Thanks, Thanks THANKS!!! :PI was wondering if you could please email me the daisy template. Is it still available? My email address: afladez@gmail.comThanks, Ana

OMG!!! You are terrific,wonderful and I just cannot find the word to describe you. I am so glad my sis recommended your sit I LOVE making creative stuff and you just inspire me even more!! THANKS AGAIN!!!:0)